{"product_id":"im-afraid-of-men","title":"I'm Afraid of Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book by: \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail, \u003c\/i\u003eIndigo, \u003ci\u003eOut Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e Audible, CBC, Apple, \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire, Kirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e Brooklyn Public Library, Writers' Trust of Canada, \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle, Bitch, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e BookRiot.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design - Prose Non-Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cultural rocket fuel.\" --\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, \u003ci\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind.\" --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun and Her Flowers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. \u003ci\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.","brand":"Penguin Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51173209735479,"sku":"9780735235939","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_9259d44f-85b2-4a6a-a53e-601538fe5b88.jpg?v=1759751058","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/im-afraid-of-men","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}